Saturday, July 10, 2010

The Story of NASA's Muslim Outreach a Dud With American Press

We have noted a number of times in the pages of this website how we tend to rely upon foreign press reports for accuracy and less bias on stories relating to America and stories of events affecting the American people.

The article below is one example, we felt, that would help you understand why we feel it necessary to go overseas for information on events in America.

JDL

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The story below is published here with the Permission of TYSK news.com****************In A Silent WayScott Johnson*****************Readers who get their news from the mainstream media are remarkably ill informed. Much of what they "know" isn't true and much of what they don't know is important. Take the case of what Byron York calls "the NASA (non) feeding frenzy."

You know the story. The guy whom President Obama has put in charge of NASA reports that he has been tasked by President Obama with missions having nothing to do with space exploration. Perhaps the foremost of these missions is to make the Muslim world feel good about itself.

York originally reported the comments made by NASA administrator Charles Bolden to Al Jazeera several days ago. Yesterday York ran a Nexis search to see whether the news had made it into the mainstream media. York's search produced this (utterly predictable) result:

Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program in the New York Times: 0.

Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program in the Washington Post: 0.

Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program on NBC Nightly News: 0.

Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program on ABC World News: 0.

Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program on CBS Evening News: 0.

York draws the conclusion: "If you were to receive your news from any one of these outlets, or even all of them together, and you heard about some sort of controversy involving the Obama administration redefining the space agency's mission to feature outreach to Muslim countries, your response would be, 'Huh?' Among all the news these distinguished outlets have seen fit to cover in recent days, the NASA story has not made the cut.

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J. D. Longstreet is a conservative Southern American (A native sandlapper and an adopted Tar Heel) with a deep passion for the history, heritage, and culture of the southern states of America. At the same time he is a deeply loyal American believing strongly in “America First”.